by David Brooks | Feb 26, 2016 | Blog
The United Nations has issued a warning that the worldwide loss of natural pollinators like native bees, flies and butterflies, above the troubles facing honeybees, is posing yet another threat to global food supply. But we knew that: UNH sponsored a...
by David Brooks | Feb 26, 2016 | Blog
The Maine state legislature is considering a novel plan that appears to move rooftop solar power into more mainstream marketplace, reports Greentech Media: The bill proposes to replace net metering — which credits rooftop solar customers at the full retail...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2016 | Blog
The long attempts to bring Atlantic salmon back to the big rivers of southern New England, the Merrimack and Connecticut rivers, has pretty much failed. They just couldn’t overcome all those dams preventing the fish from moving between sea and spawning ground,...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2016 | Blog
Nothing in particular prodded this story, except that I found a copy of it online beyond a paywall and thought I’d snag it before I lost the paywall access. This is from a story I wrote in 2013: The world’s first wind farm stood on the north side of Crotched...
by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog
A high school buddy of mine who served in the Navy can do a very funny routine about trying to locate the ship’s position with a sextant, ending with his captain dryly noting that he had decided placed their aircraft carrier was sitting in the midst of an Asian...
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